A popular admonishing Akan proverb goes, “When you go to find someone with his beard caught on fire, you had better fetch water to place beside yours”. This proverb is directed at warning people against the possibility of suffering same ill-fate that their colleague or neighbour might be going through at a particular moment hence … Read more
The Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) has filed an injunction suit against the Electoral Commission seeking to stop the election management body from conducting a balloting exercise for positions on the presidential ballot paper. Led by disqualified presidential nominee Dr Henry Herbert Lartey, the party said it would use every legal means possible to ensure … Read more
Disqualified presidential nominee of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), Dr. Henry Herbert Lartey has filed an injunction suit seeking to stop all electoral processes ahead of the December elections. Dr. Henry Lartey was disqualified by the Commission, alongside 12 other aspirants, for not providing the personal records of his running mate among other things. … Read more
Threats of court action against the Electoral Commission (EC) by disqualified presidential hopefuls would not distract the commission from carrying out its work. Spokesperson of the commission, Eric Kofi Dzakpasu speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen Programme Wednesday said that the commission is still focused on working to organize the elections on December 7th. The … Read more
Ghanaians tend to be carefree when dealing with critical matters, only to request a second opportunity to right things when the undesirable consequences of such cavalier attitudes stare them in the face, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ablekuma South, Fritz Baffour, has lamented. His comment comes in the wake of the disqualification of 13 … Read more
Ghana’s parliament needs the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), hence Ghanaians should vote massively for the party’s MP aspirants contesting in the December 7 polls, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, flag bearer of the PPP, has said. According to him, although he is challenging his disqualification from contesting in the presidential election, as announced by the Chair … Read more
The Progressive People’s Party is accusing the Electoral Commission of clearing the NPP’s presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo to contest the December 7, polls even though he did not comply with some important requirements in his nomination forms as demanded by the EC. Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters in Accra, Policy Adviser of … Read more
The lady who was said to have endorsed the nomination forms for both the United Front Party and the Great Consolidated People’s Party’s (GCPP) presidential aspirant is alleging that the GCPP forged her signature. The subscriber, Amadu Babia Latifa who spoke to 3FM’s SUNRISE morning show host, Winston Amoah insists she has nothing to do … Read more
The lady who was said to have endorsed the nomination forms for both the United Front Party and the Great Consolidated People’s Party’s (GCPP) presidential aspirant is alleging that the GCPP forged her signature. The subscriber, Amadu Babia Latifa who spoke to 3FM’s SUNRISE morning show host, Winston Amoah insists she has nothing to do … Read more
The disqualification of Mr Hassan Ayariga, the flag bearer of the All People’s Congress (APC), to contest in the 2016 presidential polls is a temporary issue that will be reversed in court, Razak Kojo Opoku, General Secretary of the APC, has said. Mr Ayariga and 12 other presidential nominees were recently disqualified from the 2016 … Read more
The Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) has threatened to expose the Chairparson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Charlotte Osei, for disqualifying its flag bearer, Dr Henry Herbert Lartey. Counsel for the GCPP, Mr Maurice Ampaw, stated that the EC would be sent to court to expose all the errors she had committed but had … Read more
Disqualified presidential nominee of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) Dr. Henry Herbert Lartey has stated that the disqualification by the Electoral Commission (EC) has made the affected political parties more popular. Dr. Lartey who described the disqualification a ‘mistake’, believes it has inured to their benefit as a party because they are now the … Read more
Disqualified Presidential nominee of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), Dr. Henry Lartey, has given the Electoral Commission (EC) till Monday to allow him contest in the presidential race or risk being sued. According to the party, the EC and its Chairperson were happy to disqualify most of the aspirants. Dr. Henry Lartey was disqualified … Read more
Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) presidential candidate Dr. Henry Lartey has expressed regret for opposing the main opposition NPP when it took on the Electoral Commission (EC) on various issues including the voters’ register. “I now understand why Peter Mac Manu [NPP Campaign manager]… was giving the Electoral Commission so much problems,” he told a … Read more
The Electoral Commission (EC) has referred all the electoral and criminal offences identified during the vetting of the nomination forms filed by aspirants for the 2016 presidential election to the Ghana Police Service and the Attorney-General’s Department for further action. The EC disclosed this to the Daily Graphic in an exclusive interview yesterday. The Daily … Read more
Mr Hassan Ayariga has said he will be president of Ghana some day “whether Ghanaians like it or not”. “I’m a very serious guy and I mean business. …It is not human beings alone who make people presidents. The intervention of God [is also important] and I believe it and I have the vision. Whether … Read more
The 2016 Presidential candidate of the Great Consolidated Popular Party Dr. Henry Herbert Lartey has admitted he erred in the filling of his nomination form. According to Dr. Lartey, he mistakenly filled a part of the nomination form meant for his vice presidential candidate, but maintains the Electoral commission should have allowed him to rectify … Read more
Flag bearer of the All People’s Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga, has said he is a proud owner of four sports cars, which he uses to indulge in racing. “I like racing. I have a series of sports cars – about four. I have the Panamera – the latest brand of the Porshce (four exhausts), I … Read more
The Electoral Commission (EC) has reported to the police and Attorney General, all the electoral and criminal offences identified during the vetting of nomination forms filed by presidential aspirants for the 2016 elections for investigations. Mr Yussif Ayuba, Deputy Communications Director of the EC, made this known on Class91.3FM’s Executive Breakfast Show (EBS) on Thursday … Read more
Due diligence could have saved the 13 disqualified presidential aspirants from being disqualified from the December 7 polls, Georgina Opoku Amakwaah, a Deputy Chair of the Electoral Commission has said. The EC, as announced by its Chair, Mrs Charlotte Osei, on Monday October 9, disqualified the aspirants for forgery, perjury, clerical and administrative errors. Those … Read more